"38 volumes bound in 21, 4to (275 x 220 mm.), engraved portrait (by Houbraken, with additional plain portrait pasted on verso), engraved vignettes and 1144 engraved plates (7 folding), ALL HAND-COLOURED, engraved table of dogs, 12 maps (10 folding). Volume 1: tome 1: Théorie de la Terre (2 pl. allégoriques), tome 2: Histoire générale des animaux (8 pl.), tome 3: Histoire naturelle de l'homme (18 pl.). Volume 2: tomes 4 & 5: Les Quadrupèdes (23 and 60 pl., engraved table of dogs) Volume 3: tomes 6 & 7: Les Quadrupèdes (49 and 48 pl.) Volume 4: tomes 8 & 9: Les Quadrupèdes (54 and 41 pl.) Volume 5: tomes 10 & 11: Les Quadrupèdes (57 and 45 pl.) Volume 6: tomes 12 & 13: Les Quadrupèdes (60 and 62 pl.) Volume 7: tomes 14 & 15: Les Quadrupèdes, dont les singes (60 and 16 pl.) Volume 8: Supplément tomes I - II (17 pl.) Volume 9: Supplément à l'histoire de l'homme et aux animaux quadrupèdes - tomes III-IV (6 and 67 pl.) Volume 10: Supplément (les époques de la natures - tomes V-VI (46 and 6 pl., 10 maps) Volume 11: Supplément tome VII (74 pl.) Histoire Naturelle des Oiseaux, nouvelle édition, tome 1: 29 pl., tomes 2 & 3: 27 & 31 pl., tomes 4 & 5: 28 & 22 pl., tomes 6 & 7: 25 & 31 pl., tomes 8 & 9: 39 & 31 pl. Histoire Naturelle des Minéraux, nouvelle édition, tomes 1 & 2 ; tomes 3 & 4 ; tome 5 (traité de l'aimant et de ses usages). Histoire Naturelle des Quadrupèdes ovipares et des serpens, nouvelle édition, tome 1: 41 pl., tome 2: 22 pl. Contemporary half brown calf, scattered staining and spotting, a few tears and repairs, apparently lacking a few half-titles or leaves (e.g. vol.1 and 2 birds), bindings with extremities repaired"
"Bookplate Hans Dedi. Réf. Nissen ZBI 678. This edition, published in Dordrecht, though with a few variant Amsterdam titles, is notoriously erratic in makeup. Nissen gives an elaborate collation with a total of 1121 plates (although he incorrectly adds up his collation to 1122 plates); but collations seem to change from one copy to another"
